Ullah Ayat, Shah Ashfaq Ahmad, Bavorova Miroslava, Kandel Giri Prasad, Kächele Harald
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 16500, Praha, Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Research Area 2 "Land Use and Governance", Working Group: Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany.
Heliyon. 2023 Feb 28;9(3):e14150. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14150. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Adoption of improved agricultural technologies can help achieve the two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of no poverty and zero hunger by 2030. This study investigates the determinants of farmers' adoption of hand tractors in the HKH region of Pakistan using binary logit model. We also examine what facilitates and what impedes the adoption of hand tractor adoption using key informant interviews. Results show that household head education, farming experience, knowledge of hand tractor use, access to credit, extension contact, and trust in technology positively affect the adoption of hand tractor; however farm size is negatively related. The findings reveal that ethnic conflicts, political conflicts, elite capture in decision making, unavailability of functional community-based entities, weak extension-farmers contact, as well as weak inter- and intra-community linkages are key barriers affecting hand tractor adoption. Similarly, observed changes on neighbors' fields, experiencing hand tractor on trial basis, communication networks, risk observations, and trust propensities motivate hand tractor adoption in the study region. Thus, to effectively disseminate improved agricultural technologies, policymakers should consider these factors.
采用改良农业技术有助于在2030年前实现无贫困和零饥饿这两个可持续发展目标。本研究使用二元逻辑模型调查了巴基斯坦兴都库什-喜马拉雅地区农民采用手扶拖拉机的决定因素。我们还通过关键信息人访谈，研究了哪些因素促进和阻碍了手扶拖拉机的采用。结果表明，户主教育程度、耕作经验、手扶拖拉机使用知识、获得信贷的机会、推广联系以及对技术的信任对手扶拖拉机的采用有积极影响；然而，农场规模与之呈负相关。研究结果显示，民族冲突、政治冲突、决策中的精英俘获、缺乏有效的社区实体、推广人员与农民联系薄弱以及社区间和社区内联系薄弱是影响手扶拖拉机采用的关键障碍。同样，观察到邻居田地的变化、试用手扶拖拉机的经历、通信网络、风险观察以及信任倾向推动了研究地区对手扶拖拉机的采用。因此，为了有效推广改良农业技术，政策制定者应考虑这些因素。
